IDENTILIN$$ F147H06/Ms. Eng.966.5/f. 82 [p. 161]/11-15-90/TJS/mf EWS/2-15-91/m
147.H06.HE1 To the Countesse of Bedford
147.H06.001 Madame /That I might make yo%5r%6 Cabinet my Tombe 
147.H06.002 And for my fame w%5ch%6. I loue next my soule 
147.H06.003 Next to my soule prouide the happyest roome
147.H06.004 Admitt to that place this last funerall scroule
147.H06.005 Others by, %Jtestaments%K >wills< giue Legacyes, but I
147.H06.006 Dying, of yo%5u%6 doe begg a Legacy.
147.H06.HE2 [blank_line]
147.H06.007 My fortune and my will this custome breake
147.H06.008 When wee are sencelesse growne to make stones speake
147.H06.009 Though no stone tell thee what I was, yet thou
147.H06.010 In my graues Inside see what thou art now
147.H06.011 Yet th'art not yet so good; till vs death lay
147.H06.012 To ripe and mellow there, w'are stubborne clay
147.H06.013 Parents make vs earth, and soules dignify
147.H06.014 Vs to bee glasse, heere to grow gold wee lie
147.H06.015 Whilst in our soules sinne bredd and pamperd is
147.H06.016 Our soules become worme-eaten carcases,
147.H06.017 So wee our selues miraculously destroy
147.H06.018 Heere bodyes, with lesse miracle, enioy
147.H06.019 Such priuiledge enabled heere to scale
147.H06.020 Heauen, when the Trumpets Ayre shall them exhale
147.H06.021 Heare this, and mend thy selfe, and thou mendst mee
147.H06.022 By making mee, beeing dead doe good to thee
147.H06.023 And thinke mee well composd that I could now
147.H06.024 A last sick howre to sillables allow. 
147.H06.0SS om.
147.H06.0$$ ll. 2, 4 ind. 5 sp; ll. 5-6 ind. 8 sp; ll. 23-24 ind 4 sp; l. 5 "wills" ins. over 
"testaments" in scribal hand; section HE "Epicedes and Obsequyes / Upon the Deaths of seuerall personages"